Iowa
Old Press
The People's Telephone
Red Oak, Montgomery co. Iowa
Wednesday, April 13, 1881
TOWN and COUNTY AFFAIRS
-With this issue my connection with the Telephone ceases
and I express a sincere desire for the future prosperity of Red
Oak and her citizens, with whose interests I have been identified
for the last ten years, and for the welfare of our common
country, I bid you adieu. Respectfully, N.W. Cole.
-Ed Mills was admitted to the bar last Friday evening.
-During the present summer, Mr. A. McConnell and Henry Swigger
contemplate building a large block of buildings adjoining the
Mcconnell block on Reade street.
-Mrs. Henry Neil and her three young daughters, have just arrived
a the home of her mother, Mrs. Wayne Stennett, after an absence
of six yeaers in California. She was among the few lady
passengers ove the southern Pacific and A.T. & Santa Fe
Railways. Her many friends welcome her to our midst.
IOWA NEWS
-The Dannaher family of North Davenport, lost three children by
scarlet fever within two days recently.
-A fire in Keokuk burned out the store of T. Birmingham, owned by
J.L. Curtis. Considerable losses were influcted upon the stocks
of H.M. Lourie, hardware, and C.J. Hickey, bakery, by water.
-John McGuire, alias Jack Collins, the desperado who shot and
killed John Norris, at Delhi, Sept. 19, 1879 has escaped from the
county jail, and is yet at large. Sheriff Cowles offers $100 for
his recapture. McGuire is 24 years old, 5 feet 6 inches in
height, is of sandy complexion, has blue eyes and weighs about
160 pounds.
-Manfred Roberts, a young man of Clarinda, was found hanging by
the neck to a tree in the woods east of town last week. He bought
a rope and left home Thursday evening. His parents hunted and
telegraphed, but no trace of him was found till discovered by two
citizens squirrel hunting. His overshoes were near the tree, his
boots sitting on the limb he hung from, and the conclusion is
irresistible that he committed suicide.
-During last week a large quanitity of the bluff through which
Franklin street, in Council Bluffs, was cut, caved in and came
down with a crash. The ground that gave way was a portion of an
ancient graveyard, from which rotted coffins and human bones have
been sticking out in plain sight for some time. With the slide
came the bones and coffins of five or six of the departed, which
were reburied at the bottom of the bank. The city authorities
will have the bones taken up and buried in the potter's field at
once.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2015]